Paradox - a very widespread quality inherent in the works of many different genres of art. Because of its unusual paradoxical statements, names, content, products always attract people. It is widely used in the conversational genre, theater and circus arts, painting and folklore. A good speaker always uses this technique in their statements in order to maintain audience interest alive. Most comic anecdote is to describe an unusual, unique situation. Popular children's "poetry preposterousness" Lewis Carroll and Korney Chukovsky also constructed at this art reception.
Ironically, many aphorisms known thinkers. Eg., Voltaire's words: "Your opinion is deeply hostile to me, but for your right to express it, I am ready to sacrifice his life" or Nietzsche: "beggars must needs be removed - to make them unpleasant and disappointing not to give them", Frumkera: "Man of women differs so that the error it carefully ". The paradox is different aphorisms, Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde.